Bethlehem, PA — 8/5/2019 — Today, Adams Outdoor Advertising Eastern PA announces the availability of Smart Billboard technology. Media buyers and advertisers now have the opportunity to combine the reach powerhouse of billboards with the targetability and trackability of online advertising. “Billboards do an excellent job of delivering compelling and […]
A federal appeals court ruled against open-ended delays in responding to billboard permit applications and also took a swing at Pennsylvania’s prohibition against billboards near interchanges.The ruling was issued July 15 (Adams Outdoor Advertising v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation). Background Adams applied for a state permit in 2016 to install […]
The Garrett County Republican reports that the Deep Creek, West Virginia Watershed Sign Committee is preparing to suggest changes to the Garrett County planning commission on how to make the sign code Reed v Gilbert compliant and how to deal with digital signs. The committee hopes to complete work in […]
“Privacy matters. Customers matter. Tech giants need to realize that no matter how big the company is, it still has a responsibility to consumers to protect their information, even if that means protecting information from its own company.” Privacy issues aren’t going away any time soon. Apple Flaunts Privacy at […]
The Bossier Press Tribune reports that Bossier Parish Lousiana has scheduled a December 19 meeting to adopt an ordinance regulating billboards and cell towers. The town currently limits billboards just to commercially-zoned districts. Here’s a link to the Bossier Parrish meeting agenda which discusses the change. The Daily Freeman reports that […]
You can protect your billboard leases from being extinguished by a non-governmental foreclosure by recording your leases or easements. Government foreclosure for unpaid taxes is another matter. Read this risk disclosure on page 7 of the rating documents for the $505 million Adams Outdoor debt issue: “If the fee simple […]
The bond rating document for the Adams $505 million debt issue tells you four things about Adams and Fairway’s operations. The billboards which are pledged as collateral for the debt issue do not constitute all of Adams and Fairways billboards but are a large enough sample to provide insights into […]
Kroll Bond Rating Agency assigned preliminary ratings to three classes of secured billboard revenue notes, issued by Adams Outdoor Advertising Limited Partnership (LP). The Notes are primarily secured by substantially all Billboard Assets owned by the Issuer. As of August 31, 2018, the Adams operated, in the aggregate, approximately 9,789 […]
Some great comments on this week’s post on hurricane frames. Matt Schulze, Selective Structures I’d like to expand on my earlier comments. Hurricane frames are a must for the coast but many operators in inland areas don’t use them for signs higher than 70 feet because installs can be difficult […]
The Morning Call is reporting that a subsidiary of Adams Outdoor has sued the City of Easton for $7.2 million in compensatory damages, alleging city officials failed to provide a suitable location for a digital billboard to be installed. To gain some perspective on the dispute, Insider published an article […]
